Short with Austin-based producer wins Sundance Jury Award

“The Procedure,” a short film written and directed by Calvin Lee Reeder, won the Sudance Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fictionb.

It was produced by Bears Fonte, former programming director for the Austin Film Festival and current director of programming (and founder) of Other Worlds Austin.

The festival screened 72 short films. The short film jurors were Amazon Studios development executive Gina Kwon, “Key and Peele” comedian Keegan-Michael Key and newly-minted MTV film critic Amy Nicholson.